THE HORSE BUSINESS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3540, 29 June 1905, Page 4

THE HORSE BUSINESS.

Who Rail* the Right Sort ot AIMMUUi Have Tt'ever Yet Slade • Failure of It. { jf • At the round-up institute in Wisconsin hut year, H. A. Briggs, an extensive bleeder of that state, gave the following good advice in regard to the brood mare.: If you are going to raise draft horses Ma what kind of brood mare you have. Don’t try to raise a draft horse from m I,W# or 1,100-pound trotting mate. Select jour largest mares and cross them with the breed you like best. • pure-bred draft horse, whether he is imported or American bred, you must got size and quality. If you are going to breed carriage or coach horses, select your mares that have size and quality, end cross them with the very best carriage horse you can. lam not going to point out the particular breed you should have. Among our American trotters we can get as good a type ol «A*cb horse as there is in the world, if tie look to size and quality, but there •To not enough of theta, if American people had paid as much attention to {producing good carriage horses as they b4V« to producing speed, and speed «lon«, we would have the best coach tuid carriage horses of any nation in fcbo world, uqd we would have a national reputation for producing carriage horses equal to the one vve have bad for producing little trotters. That baa been the one great trouble with the men who have been raising trotting Sborsts, they hare lost sight of everything except the speed and the speed pedigree, and the result in many cases has been that not one in 25 has been fit to put on the market to sell for any kind of legitimate use. Get the idea Ot trying to raise trotting horses out of your head; if he can't do anything but trot you do not want him, because you would do more harm to yourself and your family in a financial and a moral way than anything • -u can do on the farm. But ; ' you > « good standard trotting mare, and can cross her w:;h a good French or German coach or standard bred horse you cun make money in raising coach or carriage horses. Such horses are -selling all the way from $350 to $1,500. They wi gh from 1.150 to 1.250 pounds, and stand from 15>/ 2 to 16 hands high, with all of the style and nice, easy action that yon can get in • horse, not a low shuffling gait, but one that gets hi# feet up and shows nice knee action and nice hock action. That will give you an idea of the kind of horse that I think is advisable for the former to raise. You may have tit very best breeds of either one of «IMM kinds., and if you neglect feed pea will have the veriest scrub that •TOT grew on a Wisconsin farm.

A GOOD HOG TROUGH. Up Osuot fl«t Their Feet lato It WMI Cmiol Get la the Wav While lioi I* Peace* la, I Mnd sketch of a hog trough I h&ve had In use for some time, and it is a WMMM. Pig# cannot get their feet into it and cannot fat In the way when pour-

lexg in aiop. The height (E, H) i» two feat; width of opening at 13, two inches; C, D, 6 inches; D, K, sight inches. Slop k poured in at A and runs down through the two-inch opening into trough, the rear side of which slope* forward so that the pigs can reach ail the elep in bottom of trough.—Ohio Mvaser. TIMELY SWIRE ROTES. Vw are mortgage Utter* ihk pear. Converting corn into pork this seeeon he* bear’ a paying business. Do n# lot the harvest work or cultivation v the crops interfere with the ••rs of the pigs. Tbs wheat that did not pay to cut aan b« harvested by the hogs to a de«|fkd advantage. Lsi the bogs run in the orchard now and they will destroy lots of worms and insects by sating up the dropping fruit.

A farmer wh* cannot And pleasure la handling the swill pail for the piga la not able, to enjoy all the pleasures of the farm.

Bogs are filthy animals only when they are compelled to be filthy. They enjoy clean quarters as much as any other animal, and will keep them so if given a chance—National Stockman.

•keep as Farm Fertilisers. iProf, Roberts, of Cornell university, aays the fertiliser produced by a sheep In a year is worth $3,17. While the most of this is left in the pasture, its value to the farmer depends much upon the condition of the grass there. Many pastures are in such condition that they need breaking up and reseeding r,s much as they do fertilizer, and until something is done to remedy this trouble the fame of the manure made by the sheep would to some extent be wasted. We know that the sheep improve t'>‘> pasture ny killing many varieties <. * md thus give ibe grass a fetter chance, but the sheep should hot be forced to live entirely upon weeds and bushes. If they are, it Will be a question whether the bnahea or the flock of aheep will be MUrttoi

" RURAL MAIL DEUVEIWOnly a Question ol Time W *< Will Be Generally Establi#. For some time the governmen t tais been making a trial of free rural m-" delivery in 29 states on 44 dii routes. These routes were loc 1 ;, ivideh'-scattered districts, tin;, from each other in general char a.as far as possible. The mountain tricts of Arkansas, the back countr. - tricts of the middle west, the negro B c: tlements of the south, the farming districts of other statesman kinds of ton. tory were covered in order to giv-’ ■ : plan a thorough test. Perry Heath, v - has had the supervision of the says in his report that, accord; the varying conditions of the coui, traversed, the rural carriers perfm their service on horseback or ridj.ru buckboards, buggies, two-wheeled on or on bicycles. In some states they l“to cross farms and pull down bars * ride over fields to deliver and colic their mails. In no instance has a: serious complaint been made ot. invasion of private rights. On the c trary, the cooperation of the com . ties served has-In every instance effectively and cheerfully ffncnfarmers, at their <>vn cost, have pm boxes at the crossroads and at aM ot, convenient places for the reception o. tte mils. The genera-' ° ' teined have been so eatisxactory as suggest the feasibility of delivery a permanent feature P administration in the United stav ,“’ immediately or in all districts at.once, but in some graduated form. Prom this time on, therefore, we ma> expect to see a movement for the permanent establishment of such a system. The appropriation for the experiment ■was only intended to cover it as Wien, and for any further development of the system other provision will have to be made. This provision will naturally be gradual, inasmuch as the establishment of the system throughout all the rural districts at once would entail an enormous expense. But it has been pro” • that the plan is feasible and that it meets a demand. Therefore it is only a question of time when it will be generally established.—-Dakota Field and Farm. ~~

VIRGINIA’S CONVICTS. To Be Employes la the Conatmefloa of State HoatU. The bill to be introduced in the Virt ginia legislature, for the employment of convicts on the roads of the state, provides that all able-bodied male prisoners, sentenced to jail or penitentiarj for more than 90 days, shall be subject to work on the roads. Those sentenced to county jails shall work upon the roads of such counties, unless there is no immediate need of them, in which case they may be hired to other counties, but only for road work. The convicts not required for services in the penitentiary axe to be distributed among the counties, on application, and none are to be hired out for any purpose but road work, Not less than live, nor more than 25, are to be assigned to any one county, every assignment to be made for a year, unless shorter time is requested, and then for not less than 90 days. If the number of convicts is not sufficient to All the applications, they are to be supplied ratably. 1 Convicts, in respect to their work, are to be under the control of the county authorities in which they work; but, as prisoners, they are to “remain in the , custody of the state authorities as if I they remained in the penitentiary,” and ' transportation expenses, guarding, feeding, clothing and medical attendance are to be paid by the state, the counties to provide suitable shelter. Each county is to adopt and put in operation a scheme or plan for working its roads by such prisoners in its jaii as are available, together with those which may be secured from the state, and “every county shall annually levy a road tax of not less than 15 cents, nor more than 30 cents, on every SIOO of the value of the property, real and personal, assessed for taxes in the county, the proceeds to be applied to road Improvement in said county.”—-L. A. W. Bulletin.

| ARE NOT A LUXURY. • Well-Made Highways Are Really | Among the Necessities. 1 The road commissioner of New Jeir r.ey, Mr. Budd, points out that it costa three cents a bushel to haul wheat on a level road a distance of five miles, and at least nine cents to haul it the same distance on a sandy road, which goes to illustrate the practical economic importance of good roads. This is a point | which deserves the serious attention of ' farmers. Sandy and rough roads are wearing out their horses and vehicles and increasing the actual cost of their farm supplies and of the marketing of 1 their produce. Though little recognized, this is a fact most potent to'the careful observer, and most pointedly and truly expressed in Mr. Budd’s report. When -this fact penetrates the minds of farmers more* generally they will begin to realize that money and labor expended on road improvement will save money for them in reducing the actual cost of hauling and in saving vehicles and horses. It is high time to dispense with the idea that good roadis are luxurire, mere fancy frills, and to regard well-made highways os among the necessities.— Easton (Pa.) Free Press,

Periods ot Road Building. 1 In an interesting article on “Ancient and Modern Highways,” by C. L. Whittle, in the New England Magazine, the writer divides the history of road-build-ing, as affected by various uses, into three periods: First, during the reigu of the Egyptian and Assyrian kings second, beginning with the rise of Carthage, and continuing through the rise and fail of the Homan empire; three, beginning in France, with the roads “conceived by Napoleon and executed by Tresaguet;” then by Me Adam and Telford iji England, afterwards on 1 the'continent, and now in the United 1 & '